calling functions style question

I just have a basic style question here. Suppose you have the program: def foo1(): do something def foo2() do something else Assume that you want to call these functions at execution. Is it more proper to call them directly like: foo1() foo2() or in an if __name__ == __main__: ?

Re: calling functions style question

The difference becomes clear when you import your program into another program (or the command line python editor). __name__!='__main__' when you import, so the functions will not be called if they're inside the block. This is why you see this block so often at the end of scripts; so that the

Re: calling functions style question

Brian wrote: I just have a basic style question here. Suppose you have the program: def foo1(): do something def foo2() do something else Assume that you want to call these functions at execution. Is it more proper to call them directly like: foo1() foo2() or in an if